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 | | 700BCE, it was already the capital of the Sogdian satrapy under Achaemenid dynasty of Persia when Alexander the Great conquered it in 329 BCE (see Afrasiab, Sogdiana). |
 | | From the 6th to 13th centuries, it grew larger and more populous than modern Samarkand, and was controlled by the Western Turks, Arabs, Persian Samanids, Karakhan Turks, Seljuk Turks, Karakitay and Khorezmshah before being sacked by the Mongols in 1220. |
 | | In the 1420s, he built an immense, 3-story tall astrolabe, one of the largest ever constructed, in order to measure the positions of the stars with unprecedented accuracy. |
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